Training for Movies—The Albuquerque Technical Vocational Institute Workforce Training Center near I-25 and Alameda will offer a six-hour film industry training workshop in “Production Office Coordination” on May 21 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. The class will offer an overview of filmmaking departments and production office organization from pre-production to shooting through wrap up. Cost of the class is $30. For more information or to register, contact Denise Gardner at 224-5200 or Dgardner4@tvi.edu. Registration needs to be at least two days before the start of class, so hop to it if you want to get your foot in the door of New Mexico's burgeoning film industry.

A drive-in tour of the Southwest

By Devin D. O'Leary

A generation (maybe two) ago, summertime meant one thing: the return of the drive-in theater. Throughout most of the country--owing to climatic conditions--drive-in theaters had to remain closed during the winter months. (Hard to watch a movie when it's snowing on your windshield.) Given that indoor theaters can stay open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, it's not too shocking that “hardtops” eventually replaced the old “ozoners.” But there are those who still harbor fond, nostalgic feelings for those old drive-in “passion pits.”

Gory thriller has a good old time killing off its castmembers

By Devin D. O'Leary

When you're sitting in the movie theater throwing Milk Duds down your gullet, it's generally not a good idea to think too hard about what those hardened gobs of sugar are doing to your teeth, your skin, your waistline. Honestly, they're probably not all that good for you. But, as long as you don't linger on the ingredients, they're freakin' delicious. Summer movie season usually asks you to apply the same lack of critical thinking to a host of bombastic Hollywood blockbusters.

The Week in Sloth

Thursday 12

“Project Greenlight 3” (Bravo 8 p.m.) After a season of screw-ups, miscommunications and colossal blunders, Dimension Films has exactly one hour to convince us that John Gulager's Feast miraculously turned out to be the greatest movie ever made. Good luck, guys.

Friday 13

“Andromeda” (Sci-Fi 5 p.m.) Muscleman Kevin Sorbo's sci-fi series signs off the air after five seasons in space.

Aloha, Scooby-Doo (Cartoon Network 9 p.m.) In this new cartoon feature, The Mysteries Inc. gang head to Hawaii for a surfing contest. Wouldn't you know it? Somebody screws up the vacation by inviting some ghosts.